11.   Earlier foreign ministers had threatened Liberian warlords with sanctions and a war crimes tribunal if they did not honour fresh peace protocols.

12.   The rebel leader did not go to the Zambian capital Lusaka last Sunday to sign the peace protocol.

13.   The UNITA walkout could endanger the scheduled signing of the Lusaka peace protocol on Sunday by rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

14.   The two sides signed a peace protocol providing for disarmament and large-scale UN deployment in November last year.

15.   UN special envoy to Angola Alioune Blondin Beye on Tuesday sharply criticised UNITA for its delay in implementing the peace protocol signed in the Zambian capital.

16.   UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi and Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos were due to sign the Lusaka peace protocol in the Zambian capital on Sunday.

17.   Turjanzadeh complained that the two sides had signed many peace protocols, but that some of them had not been properly implemented.

18.   UNITA Washington spokesman Marcos Samondo told LUSA that Savimbi informed Albright that UNITA would now sign the peace protocol, negotiated last month in the Zambian capital.

19.   It should have taken place last November when a UN-brokered peace protocol was signed there, but Savimbi refused to turn up, citing inadequate security measures.

20.   The Angolan parliament will discuss the initialled peace protocol on Thursday.